Passports for Bitcoin Offers Privacy to Consumers
Photo by J. Stephen Conn. A number of countries offer investment-based citizenship, which offers nonresidents the chance to acquire citizenship in return for injecting money into the local economy. Now, under a new economic program sponsored by the local government, people can use Bitcoin to apply and pay for citizenship in a popular Caribean nation popular among tourists. Passports for Bitcoin. St. Kitts and Nevis was one the first nations to create a citizenship by investment programs, launching it in 1984. Now, the small island country is at the forefront of the next innovative....
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